Jess Esso
December 6, 2016

today in class we started it off by picking it up where we left off the day before, talking about how in chapter 3 we finally meet Gatsby, our supposed main character of our book.  we went on to then establish more about our narrator nick, and the very last thing he said of chapter 3. 
"Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that i have ever known."
we analyzed this sentence to fully understood what nick meant by this.  we figured out that this character has a very big ego and he is very full of himself.  he himself believes he is the only honest person out of everyone else, but yet he lies just as much as other people.  we find out that he in fact is talking about Jordan while making this statement.  he finds out that Jordan makes 2 lies within the time that they have been seeing each other.  1 about leaving the hood of a convertible down when it was raining and the other about cheating at the semi final championship golf tournament.  nick later goes on to say that Jordan is " incurably dishonest" meaning that he will not hold a grudge against her because all women lie.  he has been lying himself about what is going on with him and Jordan, but also with him and another girl that all we know about is that she sweats.  nick makes these judgements to justify his own actions.  this tells us a lot about how nick is as a person.  it tells us he is very self centered and, projects blame onto other people, possibly not to feel the guilt about his actions, its a possibility but we won't know for sure until we learn more about him not only as our narrator but as a person in general.